Back in January of this year, Jihad Watch published a link to a news story about a hospital in Sydney, Australia, where apparently the month before, in December of 2007, a horde of over a hundred Muslims mobbed the trauma center there in angry response to what they apparently claimed was bad treatment of a Muslim patient.
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch shortly thereafter yanked the article, arguing that there was not enough corroborating evidence for the story.
At the time, I published the details of the story and posted the email address of the director of the trauma center at the hospital where the incident supposedly took place, telling my readers that I had emailed him for his response to this alleged news story. I never received a reply from him.
Now, just a couple of days ago, the Gates of Vienna website published on its regular “News Feed” feature a story of an oddly similar incident, under the title Australia—Pacific: Near-Riot at Hospital After Fatal Shooting, apparently supposed to have occurred this month of August in 2008. This time, the hospital involved is not Liverpool Hospital, as it was supposed to have been in December of 2007, but Auburn Hospital. Both hospitals are in Sydney. (In a comment at the Gates of Vienna, I posted my concerns a couple of days ago about the oddity of this story being duplicated six months apart, but nobody there apparently cares.)
Something smells odd here, if not suspicious. The news link that Gates of Vienna supplies is one of those generic on-line news services, called “ninemsn”—albeit with an apparent Australian orientation.
ninemsn is Australia's number-one interactive media company. Over 8.2 million people (as at May 2007) visit ninemsn each month, making it the largest online audience in Australia. . .
so touts a blurb linked here, but apparently inaccessible on the “cached page” it is supposed to originate from.
For what it’s worth, the ninemsn link has a video of the alleged event, though the location of the events depicted, and the date, are not apparently evident from the video.
One would think that the assault on a hospital in the major city of Sydney would garner at least one news story from a mainstream news source out of Australia—such as The Australian, or the Sun-Herald, or the Sydney Daily Telegraph, or the Sydney Morning Herald, for example. I searched the word “hospital” on the website of The Australian and combed through ten pages of links to stories dealing with anything connected to “hospital”. Not a single story about a besieged hospital in Sydney came up.
3 comments:
The story is true though it is a back story. The mainstory is about an armed robbery that failed. Three men , now known to be Muslim , confronted security guards loading cash into an armored truck. This was in the main street of Parramatta in late afternoon ( peak hour!) The security guards drew their guns and shot one of the armed robbers forcing them to flee. The wounded robber was dump near Auburn Hospital. The wounded robber was DOA when he arrived at the hospital. A crowd of 100 people arrived at the Hospital , though 'peaceful' the hospital when into lockdown and the dog squad ( crowd control) was called in with with other reinforcements. The demand was the need for burial within 24 hours as per Islamic tradition. The crowd dispersed when the neccessity of autopsy , due to the circumstances , was made clear. The crowd was Muslim and Auburn is a Muslim area.
I was critical of the Liverpool post because it had no sources and didnt seem plausible ...but now.
David Xavier,
First, I'd need a credible source for the Auburn hospital story.
Second, it seems highly fishy that a story of the same, and unusual, particulars was being bandied about six months ago.
Here's a link to a Australian News outlet. It has , at the top of the first paragraph, a video link showing TV coverage of the mallee at Auburn Hospital and the dog squad pushing what is an obvious Muslim crowd away.
http://livenews.com.au/Articles/
2008/08/21
/Parramatta_holdup_shooting_could_
have_been_avoided
The dead armed robber is named Kaled Dib and a search for that should bring up more references. The link above is good because it has the Channel Ten video report.
The reason I am interested in this is because I do remember the Jihad watch "Liverpool Hospital riot" posting. I couldnt find any reference to it in even the suburban community based papers ( which always report on local crime) nevermind the larger news outlets. I live in Western Sydney.
So when it heard about the Auburn Hospital I immediately thought of the "Liverpool Hospital riot" which I had dismissed with numerous postings to Jihad watch before its removal.
Now perhaps the only reason this Auburn Hospital incident was reported was because of its connection to the armed robbery. The Liverpool Hospital death was due to a car accident , so there was no reporters on the scene or any news outlet thinking it newsworthy to report on byitself....or it may have never happened. But the Auburn Hospital incident now leaves be to question my summary dismissal of the 'Liverpool hospital' posting at Jihadwatch. Still , true or not , Jihad watch should only post accounts and incidents that have credible sources - the 'forces' ranged against it, make this a necessity.
Finally , perhaps rather than being fishy , this sort of Hospital confrontation perhaps happens more frequently than is reported?
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